Early Machines

Terry Foster sent in these superb pictures of early Machines, taken from an old book. The captions are also taken from the book.

I have produced a set of eight postcards featuring some of these "Early Machines" - the cards are unique to this site and cannot be bought anywhere else. Price includes postage to anywhere in the world. Click here for further details.

The Kastenbein Typesetter
The Linotype Blower
The Square Base Linotype
The Linotype Model 1
The Reconstructed Linotype Model 1
The Linotype Model 2
The Linotype Model 3
The Linograph
The Linotype Model 4 (First Style)
The Linotype Model 4 (Second Style)
The Linotype Model 6

The Linotype Model 2

This machine had the following improvements over the Model 1 (Old Style):

A light magazine, capable of being changed from the front of the machine.

This machine produced all type faces up to 12-point and type bodies up to 14-point, in all measures up to 30 pica ems, and was the first Linotype to be equipped with an automatic quadder.